GREENVILLE - United States Attorney Frank D. Whitney announced
that ANDREW BROWN, 50, of Elizabeth City, N. C., was sentenced in
federal court in Raleigh on Tuesday, March 7, 2006. On December
13, 2005, BROWN was convicted by a jury of the February 9, 2005
robbery of First Citizens Bank, 310 S. Road Street in Elizabeth
City. The defendant was charged in an indictment filed on July 14,
2005.

U.S. District Judge James C. Dever, III sentenced BROWN to the
maximum sentence of 240 months in prison followed by a supervised
release term of three years. Because of his prior felony
convictions, including multiple felony convictions for assault,
BROWN was sentenced as a career offender under federal sentencing
guidelines. While unarmed during the robbery, the evidence
demonstrated that BROWN threatened violence by pretending to have
a gun, and that he attempted to kidnap one of the victim tellers to
facilitate his escape from the bank. He ultimately stole that
teller’s vehicle to make his getaway.

Investigation of the case was conducted by the Federal Bureau
of Investigation and the Elizabeth City Police Department.
Assistant U.S. Attorney John H. Bennett of the Greenville branch
office is handling the case for the Government.

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www.usdoj.gov/usao/nce within 48 hours of release.

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